So apparently the latest hot cable television show is Man vs. Wild on the Discovery Channel. Man vs. Wild features survivalist Bear Grylls (Christian…at least according to Wikipedia) being dropped into some remote location (the Australian Outback, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Alps, a glacier, etc.) and showing people how to survive while making their way back to some semblance of civilization where they can get help (a road, a town, a house, etc.). Survival entails drinking what you can (moisture from elephant dung, your own urine, etc.), eating what you can (snakes, frogs, maggots, rotting sheep, etc.), and escaping various pitfalls…literally. For example, Grylls has jumped into freezing water to demonstrate how to survive falling through ice (he’s also done the same with quicksand).

Anyway, I’d like to pitch a show to the Discovery Channel: Man vs. Vegas. The premise of the show is that an urban survivalist (me) will be dropped into some not-so-remote location on or near the Strip and must make his way out of town alive, all the while surviving/dodging various Vegas pitfalls. For example, alcohol poisoning; taxis driven by blind cabbies; near-fatal buffet binges; maxing out your credit/debit cards after a bad streak at the craps tables; those guys who hand out flyers for escort services/prostitutes on the Strip, etc. I’ll also demonstrate how to survive a random strip club shooting (and the ensuing riot) after a patron “makes it rain”; an attack by Siberian white tigers going berserk during a magic show; and having your kidney pilfered by an Asian masseuse/call girl/pre-op transvestite.

Come on, you know you’d watch it!

P.S. Last week The Media Evangelism Ltd. posted a behind-the-scenes video on the Love Is… website. Spotted briefly was ubiquitous character actor Hui Siu-Hung, who’s pretty much been in every single Hong Kong movie since the Handover. Now I guess he’s making a cameo in Love Is…

Can’t wait.